Jack Cargill is professor of history at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Athenian Settlements of the Fourth Century B.C. (1995) and Handbook for Ancient History Classes (1997).
Kelly Schrum received her Ph.D. in American history from Johns Hopkins University in 2000. She is revising her dissertation, Some Wore Bobby Sox: The Development of Teenage Girls' Culture, 1920-1950, for publication. She is associate editor of History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web at the Center for History and New Media, and is creating online "Learner Guides" in cooperation with the Visible Knowledge Project. Her research interests include gender, consumer culture, youth, and new media.
David Kobrin was clinical professor of education at Brown University. He has taught history and social studies to secondary students for thirteen years and to undergraduate and graduate students for six years. He is the author of In There with the Kids: Teaching in Today's Classroom, and Beyond the Textbook: Teaching History Using Documents and Primary Sources. He is currently chair of the history department at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, Maryland.
Tracey M. Weis is associate professor of history at Millersville University in Pennsylvania. Her current teaching responsibilities include 19th Century U.S. History, Women in U.S. History, and African-American History. She is the Millersville University campus coordinator for the national Visible Knowledge Project devoted to investigating the impacts of technology-enhanced instruction on student learning and professional development. She is also directing an NEH-funded faculty and curriculum development project on the Underground Railroad, "Underground Railroad Texts and Contexts: Researching, Teaching, and Interpreting the Underground Railroad in Interdisciplinary Perspective."
Julio César Pino is associate professor of history at Kent State University, Ohio, specializing in Latin American history. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of California at Los Angeles. His current courses include "Social History of Women in Latin America" and "Comparative Latin American Revolutions." In 1997 he published Family and Favela: the Reproduction of Poverty in Rio de Janeiro (Greenwood Press), dealing with household organization and the feminization of poverty in the Rio shantytowns.
Kate Lang is assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire where she teaches Middle East history, World history, Women's history, and historiography. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
Deborah M. De Simone is assistant professor of education and women's studies at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. She holds a doctorate in history and education from Teacher's College, Columbia University and a bachelor's degree in history from Brown University.
Ane Lintvedt received her B.A. from Lawrence University and M.A. in history from Johns Hopkins University. She has been on the faculty of the McDonogh School in Baltimore, Maryland for seventeen years, teaching European, United States, Women's, and World history, and a variety of interdisciplinary courses, including history of science. She has been a reader and table leader for the European history AP exam for the last six years, and is a member of the WHA Executive Council.
Isabel Schon was born in Mexico City and came to the United States in 1972 where she obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Colorado in 1974. She is the author of twenty-two books and more than four hundred research and literary articles in the areas of biliteracy/multicultural education and literature for Latino children and adolescents and has received several national and international awards. Currently, she is director of the Barahona Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents and is a professor and founding faculty member at California State University, San Marcos.
James Ingram Martin, Sr. is director of historical studies at Campbell University in Buies Creek, North Carolina. He holds a Ph.D. in European history from Emory University, and taught high school social studies for five years before coming to Campbell in 1991. His research interests include ethnohistory and social studies education.